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Old 28-03-2020, 17:26   #1453
jfman
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Re: Coronavirus

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth View Post
I too would like to take you up on this. The human is intent on preserving his/her own life. This must weigh on how people see the percentage. One can't write people off in this way.

To be sure, I can see you're not advocating this callousness in any way. But the
risk of dying for old folk is a different percentage when seen against the number contracting the virus.

The only statistics that matter are the number of deaths both gross and over-70s.
It also only currently represents that. It will go far higher. To the extent it cripples the healthcare system and people start dying from all kinds of unrelated issues (cancer etc.) because there was no resource to treat them, despite perhaps never having coronavirus.
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